This might be a somewhat unusual post, but I’ve made a pledge to myself to financially support Fediverse creators whose content I enjoy and I’d like to make an attempt to inspire others to do the same.
I want to make it very clear that the amount you donate does not matter! It’s not a competition.
I make small donations (~1-5$/mo) to some of my favourites because I plan on supporting them indefinitely which is usually better than one-time donations. This unfortunately also means that it will require multiple people to work well, but if we can build a reputation for the Fediverse as a place where people are likely to support your work then it would naturally become more appealing to post here.
I use Liberapay whenever I can because it lets me choose how much I want to donate and how frequent which makes this easy to manage.
You can of course experiment with the conditions (e.g: type of creators), the donation amount or donation frequency. Use what works for you, and again, what matters is that you support someone, not the amount!
As a creator myself, much appreciated. I wish more people would do this.
And folks, if you can’t or don’t want to give someone money, even just clicking the like button, boosting/retweeting, or leaving a comment is a great way to help a creator for free.
Making videos is a fun hobby, but lots of work, and I think most people don’t understand the amount of work that goes into it.